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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā

Madhya 13.152 Madhya 13.154

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 13.153

সেই সতী প্রেমবতী, প্রেমবান্ সেই পতি,

বিয়োগে যে বাঞ্ছে প্রিয়-হিতে ।

না গণে আপন-দুঃখ, বাঞ্ছে প্রিয়জন-সুখ,

সেই দুই মিলে অচিরাতে ॥ ১৫৩ ॥

sei satī premavatī, premavān sei pati,

viyoge ye vāñche priya-hite

nā gaṇe āpana-duḥkha, vāñche priyajana-sukha,

sei dui mile acirāte

Translation

“Such a loving, chaste wife and loving husband desire all welfare for each other in separation and do not care for personal happiness. Desiring only each other’s well-being, such a pair certainly meet again without delay.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Love Seeks the Other’s Welfare

1
A loving, chaste wife and loving husband desire each other’s welfare even in separation.
2
They do not care for personal happiness; their concern is each other’s well-being.
3
Such a pair, desiring only each other’s welfare, certainly meet again without delay.

How it feels

Public ecstasy with inward longing. The festival’s collective joy carries the profound Vraja mood of meeting and separation.

The mood of Madhya 13 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Madhya 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yātrā

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

With two mṛdaṅgas in each division, there were altogether fourteen mṛdaṅgas. While performing kīrtana, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy, and Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exchanged Their feelings very blissfully.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

sei satīthat chaste wife
prema-vatīfull of love
prema-vānloving
sei patithat husband
viyogein separation
yewho
vāñchedesire
priya-hitefor the welfare of the other

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separation”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When separated from someone I love, do I think more about their welfare or my own happiness?

Practice

Do one small thing for a loved one’s well-being today without seeking anything in return.

Live this todayLove Seeks the Other’s WelfareThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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